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The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-09-02
AFFRAY AT NAG s HEAD.

Tuesday night last a cutting affray
occurred at Nagis Head. Two negroes
Edward Nixon and Charles Good win
were the parties participant. The latter
W as badly lacerated. 1t seems that one
OF them while drunk and, in the act Of
passing the other, fell against him, there
upon harsh words ensned resulting in
the drawing of knife by the drunk
man who inflicted two severe wounds
in the throat aud stab in the temple Of
the other.
There being no Justice at hand Nixon
made his escape ere warrant was iss ued
for his arrest.
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-09-02
REMDWAIss E

When first he came among us, eight
years ago, l.. Levy considered himself
compelled to- occupy q store which, from
its retired situation, he called country.
After. when opportunity offered, he
moved to the Rosenthall store when he
thought himself in town. Now, con-
trolled by business interests, the firm
moves again, and, this time, to the
large and spacious building formerly
occupied by Messrs. Skinner and Par
sons, Main street, which situation he
declares to be in the mindst of the city
and, of all places, most attractive to
purchasers.
His life experience as a merchant war
rants him IN saying that TO advertise
prices amounts to simple nonsense.
Call and examine goods, see for your
selves their quality and then let the
price control your purchase as he is
determaned to close out the remnant of
goods on hand in order to make room
for New Fall and Winter Stock which
will be selected in the great city of New
York with which no market can sue
cessfully compete.
Thanking my customers and public
generally for past favors and asking a
continuation of the same. respectfully
subscribe myself for the firm
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-09-02
CONSIDERATE.

For the sake of other hearts that would
be made to suffer we do trust we shall
not be driven to the use of personalities.
-Albemarle Enquirer.
Relatives ought to be spared the pain
of reviewing a shameful record and we
congratulate the Editor upon his con-
sideration for his kin.
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-09-02
BURNED TO DEATH.

We hear through private sources that
that young girl, Miss Lizzie Steiger,
of E. City, who was badly burned
Wednesday morning by kerosine explo
sion died. from the effects of injuries
received, yesterday.
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-09-02

Wiggins' venerable prediction, now
several years old. is again abroad, and
the fatal 10Th of September is loaded
down with direful disasters.-Virgin-
ian.
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-09-02
EDENTON NJ c., Friday September 2, 1887.

Entered at the Post Office at Eden
ton as Second-C Matter.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10
The Girl Who Laughs.

One of our newspaper bards, says
writer in the San Francisco Post, has
sung the praises of the girl who laughs
and doesn't care. And he is right. /
do not mean the giggling girl, but the
girl who can laugh heartily and merri-
ly when there is anything to laugh at.
| once heard lecturer bid young men
beware of marrying a girl whom they
had never known to laugh. Such
one will seldom have the faculty of
making the best of things. l some
time since attended a theatre where
the play was stupid and the actors
poor. We were badly sold and dis
appointed audience, and so l turned
my attention to the latter for amuse-
ment. The couple at my left furnished
me with q most painful specimen of
the woman who cannot laugh, and my
heart ached for her husband, n jolly
looking gentleman who strove by
every means in his power to atone for
his wife's disappointment by his own
pleasantly and genial ways. Although
many of his sotto voce remarks con-
vulsed his immediate neighbors, his
wife sat with never a smile on her
vinegar countenance-severi person
shake her as soundly as she deserved.
Herbert Spencer says: every power,
bodily and mental, is increased by
good spirits. There is no such tonic
as happiness" Cheerfulness ought to
be made one of the cardinal virtues,
and its cultivation duty. For a
good, everyday household angel, COM
mend me to the woman who can
laugh, who can bear trifling disap-
pointments with cheerfulness, and can
even see a humorous side to a very
disagreeable situation. Believe me,
this faculty is of more value in home
than an overwhelming intellect or a
knowledge of comic sections. The
woman who can laugh heartily is not
always the model housekeeper; she is
more than likely to forget that there is
bread in the oven, but if she does she
will give you hot biscuits for supper in
the place of the burned bread, and
make them with the sweetest temper
in the world. This trick of always
seeing the bright side, or of shining
up the dark one, is a faculty that can
be cultivated, and if we are not born,
as the Irish say, with the sunshine IN
our hearts we may have SO much as a
tallow dip that can be snuffed and
trimmed and coaxed into light that
may help somebody by its brightness.
Call the world battlefield if you
like, but don't let your home life be a
battlefield, or, at least, let your weap-
ons be good humor and jollity, and you
will win-and that right nobly-every
/ time.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10
How Fashions Originate.

'If the merchant tailors now in con-
vention IN this city said one of our
club men the other day, 'think they
can set the fashion and make the gilded
youth of this country follow it by SIM
ply deciding in congress assembled
that such-and-such style of garment
is to be the mode they are very much
mistaken. The laws governing gen
tlemen's clothes are at present set in
England by London tailors. When
the tailors want To introduce a certain
cut or cloth they ask some titled indi-
vidual to wear Il garment of that stuff
or pattern, and allow him to set the
fashions; thsy don't try to do it them
selves. You may remember the fate
of the mulberry colOred dress suit
which was To take the place of the
conventional claw-hammer a few years
ago. A more nondeScript garment
was never invented. and the pictures
of it in the windows were enough to
kill it. Unless the tailors can show
more originality, or rather more taste,
than that they had better be content to
follow their English brethren, or wait
unIh we nave soiiiS one III IHlS COUNTY,
who can set the fashion as the Prince
of Wales does abroad.
The servility with which this dis
| tinguished nobleman's fads are fol-
lowed is shown at present in the fash
| ion some of our smart young men
have of leaving the lowest button of
their vest unbuttoned. The story is
that the Prince loosened this particu-
lar button one evening after a stag
dinner, and that the next morning all
the young men who had been present
appeared in similar state of desha-
bile. The fashion has now reached this
country, though not more than one oi
a hundred of those who follow it know
why or care why they do so.-Phita
deiphia Press.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10
Birth-Customs in Transylvanfa.

BY-and-bY, when few months had
passed over the head of the new-mar-
ried couple and the young matron
became aware that .he prophecies
pointed at by the dolls cradle and the
broken distaff are likely to come true.
she is carefully instructed as To the
conduct she must observe in order to
insure the well-being of herself and
her child.
In the first place, she must on no
account conceal her state, or deny it
when interrogated on the subject-fOr
if she does so, her child will never
learn to speak; nor may she wear
beads on her neck, for that would
cause her infant to be strangled at its
birth. Carrying peas or beans in her
apron viii produce malignant erup-
tions; and sweeping the chimney will
make the child narrow-breasted.
On no account should she be al
lowed to pull of her husbands boots.
nor to hand him glowing coal to
light his pipe; for both these actions
bring misfortune In driving to mar
ket she may not sit with her back TO
the horses, nor may she ever drink at
the well out of wooden bucket
Also, her intercourse with the pig
sty must be very carefully guarded;
for if she listen too attentively to the
grunting of pigs, her child viii have a
deep, grunting voice; and if she kick
the swine or push them. away with her
foot. the infant will have bristly hair
on its back. Hair on the face will be
the result of beating dog or cat, and
twins will be the consequence of eat
ing double cherries or sitting at the
corner of the table.
| During this time she may not stand
godmother to any other child, or else
she viii lose her own baby, which viii
equally be sure to die if she wall
round newly made grave.
If anyone throw a flower suddenly
at the woman who expects TO become
a mother, and hits her with it on the
face, her child will have a mole at tbs
same place touched by the flower
Popular Science Monthly.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10
Why Men Become Bald.

did you ever notice what classes of
men are III - commonly baldPn asked
an expert hair-dresser of New York
Mdl and Express reporter the other
day. THAT throws a good deal of
light on the causes of badness. People
give all kinds of explanations for it
dissipation, cutting the hair too short,
letting it grow too long. smoking.
drinking strong coffee, worry, wearing
high hats, wearing low hats. wearing
your hat indoors, not wearing it out
doors, late hours. and hundred other
things. Now you will notice that there
are no classes of men more frequently
bald than retail statesmen. bookkeepers,
and office clerks in certain lines of
business. Why should badness affect
them more than othersp Because they
habitually stand or sit nearly every
evening under gas-lights. Bookkeepers
always have a strong light right over
their heads or Just in front of them.
So do clerks who have to work at night
Retail statesmen sell goods at night
directly under two powerful burners.
and most of the time their heads are
not more than two or three feet from
the flame. The artificial heat dries out
tut udiis fiidht5 IL btiilIt dbu uilutdillfIs
and finally kills it at the root If you
will pass your hand through your hair
after you have been standing under a
gas-light for few moments you will
see at once how it is Although you
may not have noticed the heat on your
head, your hair, if you've got any, will
be hot to the roots. You'll be surprised
to observe, too, at what a distance from
the light the hair will absorb the heat
Now there is nothing so bad for the
hair as getting 1t dry. That is why the
use of water on it is so injurious-be-
cause it evaporates so readily and takes
with it the natural oil of the hair. Your
hair should be moist all the time and
with the oil that is secreted 10y the little
cells at the roots. When the oil is con-
tinually and rapidly dried out, as it is
when the head is kept heated by gas
light, the cell dries up and the hair falls
out People who sit under the gas
light should wear some kind of cool.
non-conducting headgear to protect
themselves. L have an idea, too, that
after the electric light has been in uni
versal use for a generation or two
badness will be as scarce as it was be-
fore gas-lights and night work got COM
mon together"
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10
Butter Substitutes.

In the Century Professor Atwa-
ter of Wesleyan University begins q
series of papers on The Chemistry
of Foods From the chapter on
Butter and Oleomargarine we quote
as follows: I'm a number of States in
which the dairy interests are large,
the manufacture and sale OF butter
substitutes has been prohibited by le-
gislative action. In other States, laws
have been enacted to regulate their
sale and to prevent fraud. An at
tempt was made in Congress to check
the manufacture and sale by taxation
sufficient to bring their cost nearly up
to that of butter. In the law as act
ually passed, however, the tax was
very much reduced. so that while II
may help toward preventing improper
sale of butter substitutes and, by
obliging sellers to pay high license
fees, may considerably interfere with
their general use, it Will not be as eff
fective in excluding them from the
markets as was desired. This is Q
case where mechanical invention aid
ed by science is enabled to furnish 9
cheap, wholesome, and nutritious food
for the people. Legislation to pro
vide for official inspection of this, a:
of other food products, and to insure
that it shall be sold for what 1t Is and
not for what it is not, is very desira-
BILE. Every reasonable measure to
prevent fraud, here as elsewhere
ought to be welcomed But the at
tempt to curtail or suppress the pro
duction of cheap and useful fooe
material by law, lest the profits which
class, the producers of butter, have
enioyed from the manufacture of {
costlier article may be diminished, il
opposed to the interests of largt
body of people, to the spirit of our in
stltufions, and to the plainest dictates
of Justice"
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10
Knights of Honor Influence in
Communities and Upon Society.

This great order has done a grand
work as beneficiary society; but it has
also exertei a wonderful influence for
good in communities. Its ritual is a
beautiful system of moral and instruc-
tive lessons, presented in such a manner
that they not only impress themselves
forciblv, but they admonish the initiate
to noble deeds Of humanity. Its mem
bers are taught that one Of the first du-
ties of man is to care for those depend
ent upon him; that all good men and
good citizens are so much their brother 8
keeper, that they mus. do whatever
| lies in their power to better the cOncI-
ton of those around him. They are
taught that they are to a certain extent
responsible for the good of the commu-
nifty.
It's members are impressed with their
duties to their fellow men, and especial
" to a brother Knight of Honor.
Members in distress or out of employ
menU, are cared for and employment is
sought for them. A brotherly interest
| is felt for one another, and one in ad-
versity finds willing hands and sympa-
thizing hearts that are ready and anx-
ious to lift him up and give him words
of encouragement and needed assistance.
Men learn that it is not unmanly to be
dependent, and that it is ennobling to
| be fraternal and charitable.
The cultivation of this fellow feeling;
| this love for the betterment of human
ity; this suppression of selfishness; this
desire to help others, Is the laven which
permeates communities and elevates
society. The toiling husband and
father, who was only able to feed and
cloth the wife and little ones, and who
was never able to own the roof which
sheltered him and his, but who, by a
pittance, paid each month for few
years to his lodge, has left home unin-
numbered and something to feed those
he has left on this side the river, has
given an example, which, seen by his
neighbors, must impress them, and
incite them to like deeds of human kind
ness.
No community can support lodge OF
Knights of Honor without experiencing
its good influences. No man, unless he
be false to himself, can be a Knight of
Honor without being better for it, and
feeling his obligations to the community
and society. He will go out to use his
best endeavors for the betterment of
both He can ouly be a consistent
| Knight of Honor by being better citi-
zen, and doirg all he can to advance the
interests of his community and elevate
its society.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10
CannibaIS I'm America.

Pref j. jacobsen, who has been in
the province for some years collecting
Indian eurios for the Hamburger
museum and writing up the habits.
customs. and traditions of the aborig-
ines, arrived down on the BoscOwitz
from Bella Coola. The professor spent
last winter at Tucalo the head of the
southernmost of the Bentinck. Here he
found the Indian in his primitive state,
a wild, untutored savage, with but a
scant knowledge of the arts or customs
of civilization. The inlet, running fan
inland and being every way out of the
course of traders or proSpectors, is
never visited, and the Indians say no
white man ever went up to the head
of it before. They live there as they do
in most places around the coast, by
hunting and fishing, deer and fur-bear
ing animals abounding in large num-
bers. They are without missionaries
and cannibalism is rampant. The
professor tells of some sickening sights
which he witnessed there during the
past winter. which at this day one
could scarcely believe capable of being
witnessed so near home, did the infor-
nation not come from reliable per-
| son. The custom is still out there of
| men ambitious for the honors of chief
tain betaking themselves to the woods,
| and after remaining there for some
time, coming back possessed of
the spirit and biting pieces of flesh
from the bodies of those whom they
first meet. One who wished to gradu-
graduate last winter went out and
remained from sight for several
weeks, though he came near the camp
occasionally and made night hideous
with his yells. When he returned to
| the tribe he came naked, notwithstand-
ing that it was in the middle of the
| winter, with two or three feet of snow
| on the ground. The first man he met
he seized, knocked down, and bit a
piece out of his arm, which he chewed
rayenously. This was repeated many
times over, his face becoming be-
smeared with blood and presenting a
| tiendish appearance. The victims of
the would be chieftain's bites received
in return for their pains a pecuniary
compensation, and it is an honor to
carry the scar. The more scars of this
kind decorate an Indians body the
more numerous are his honors, and
when he comes to have a great many
he becomes chieftain himself in little
way. The bitter on one occasion made
a break for the professor, who soon
gave him to understand that he was
| going to experience something pretty
| tough if he tackled him. He was not
molested. - Victoria CO{OniSt
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10
Salananders.

Two giant salamanders, said TO be
the first that ever visited this country,
have arrived at the Messrs. Reiche's
from Japan. They came in a tub
with an oblong bottom on the steam
ship Elbe, and the only information
which accompanied them was that they
were specimens of the crytO6ranchus
mdIinluS. Young Mr.. Reiche drew on
his knowledge of natural history and
on all the libraries for facts concern
ing the newly arrived creatures, and
if only a small part of what he found
concerning them is true they will never
be generally introduced as pets in this
country.
This is the creature of which Pliny
believed, or at least wrote, that it was
so venomous that it was able to des-
troy whole nations unless they looked
out, and that it was so cold that it put
| out fire by contact with the flame.
| Cuvier wrote that the salamander had
the reputation of being able to mot
| only come safe and sound out of the
| flames but even extinguish them.
Even in this age the prevalent notion
as to salamanders is that they inhabit
tireplaces, bonfres, and other places
where promoters would have to be
used instead of thermometers.
The two salamanders now in this
country are kept in a tank of water
and not in a fiery furnace At a little
distance they resemble the indolent
three-foot catfish that live in the slug
| gish waters of the South, and from
which the indolent darkies cut strips
of bait as they need it and then turn
them loose to grow more bait. Their
thick, matted, warty, and Shiny skins
suggests a Smyrna rug of subdued pat
| tern in brown and black. They have
four legs, with five toes to the leg, but
| their legs don't amount to much for
pedestrian purposes, and are used as
seal uses its flippers. The head is
shaped like the toe of medium round
shoe, and the tail is thick and wedge
shaped The small, dull eyes, can be
distinguished among the warts by
looking closely. There are two rows
of small, sharp teeth in each jaw.
| The salamanders eat raw beef and
seem to enjoy it. 1t is said that the
giant salamader grows to the size OF
an adult crocodile, and Mr. Reiche
will watch with considerable interest
the development of these infants.-Ne1t
York Sun.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10
How Sea Captains Get Rich.

IL Is often 4 source of wonder how
so many ship captains amass large
fortunes, build palatial residences, and
settle down, after a life of hardship
and exposure, as the seers and proph-
| cts of their native villages. To be
sure, says the Boston AdrertiSer, since
the days of high freights and vast
profits of the East India trade. when
vessel frequently paid for herself in
| one voyage, fewer opportunities are
| afforded to owners and captains to ac-
cumulate fortunes with the rapidity of
former days.
Still there are methods by which the
crafty commander of the ship is ena-
bled to pick up few stray dollars.
The law provides that the captain of
every ship shall provide ''slop chest"
containing boots, oilskin, socks, un-
derclothing. etc, to be sold to the
sailors, including a goodly supply of
tobacco. The law also provides that
the profits of the captain from this
sale shall be limited to 10 per cent.
This, however, is rarely enforced, and
the captain disposes of tobacco that
cost 80 cents a pound for 81 cents, 81.
and often $3.50. The other contents
of the slop chest are also doled out 10
the sailors, with whom it is case of
Hobson's choice. with enormous profits
to the captains pocket.
Captains also have peculiar fond
ness for commissions, and when lying
at port the butcher, the ship chandler,
and the bum-boatman all willingly
agree to pay over a certain percentage
of the money received from the ship
for the sake of obtaining the trade.
Money has to be hired to meet the
bills, and here, too, the inevitable
commission jingles in the pockets of
the master of the ship, at sea an auto
crat, on shore an object of adulation.
Vessels in distress are often obliged
to hire large sums of money to meet
the expenses of repairing, and part of
the interest paid andthe large bonuses
of the advances find their way into
the eyer-open pocket of the crafty
mariner.
As an illustration, the writer was
on board a ship the second mate of
which was to be discharged at a for
eign port. The captain, in making up
the accounts ready to be submitted to
the consul, found that he had been
charging the mate 40 cents a pound
for tobacco. Those fellows on shore
will get all his money, anyhow" said
he, land / reckon might as well have
part of it" Accordingly, tobacco was
entered in the bill 81 per pound, and
the other items in the bill were in
creased in like proportion.
From this short account it will be
seen that the captains still have OPP
portunities to make little money ''on
the outside" The amounts made by
some by smuggling soon enable them
to retire from the sea and live life
of ease.